>Cares about free software >Uses 4chan Explain yourselves /g/

>>61101632
It's not software

>>61101671
But it runs on proprietary software.

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>>61101632
>says he cares about free software
>keeps it locked in his computer

It's not something that runs on my Computer, why should i care if 4chan gives up their Freedoms? I just pity them for doing so.

>>61101632
Stallman explained that it's not software running on your computer, it's a service.

>>61102200
>>61102211
4chan displays malicious advertisements, and other malicious things go on. Especially that whole a.ekansovi.com thing.
A service can be harmful to the consumer.

>>61102267
then get out of here and leave us alone to our misery

>>61102284
I don't really give a shit, just wanted to start some discussion.

Transparency isn't why I use free software. I use free software because it usually works better than the proprietary alternative. 4chan works just fine and there isn't a free alternative anyways, so I'm fine with using it.

>>61102267
Not when you browse through the 4chan API.

>>61102267
if only there was a way to block these things

>>61102315
Maybe there is, but that doesn't make it any better. You can block MS connections, but does that make Windows 10 any less of a botnet?

>reddit is open source
>4chan isn't
Explain this you channers.

>>61101684
We don't care I it runs on it.
We just like to use free software on our own hardware.
Startpage is using Google's search engine which is proprietary but who cares.
If it ain't doing no harm to our privacy.

>>61101632
You can use 4chan with free JS if you use 4chanX and a pass
The API is FOSS, and last time we knew on what software it ran it was FreeBSD, the only proprietary part it's the imageboard backend, still, it's a service so you don't have to care
>>61102267
4chan became a harmful service years ago when Google's captcha was introduced, things have only worsened with more tracking shit like analytics and the weird recent news
You can avoid the harmfulness by blocking the stuff though
>>61102334
4chan's software it's too awful to be open sourced, everyone would exploit the shit out of the site and laugh at moot et al.

>>61102381
>You can use 4chan with free JS if you use 4chanX and a pass
I have both, how?

>>61102328
No, because it is Proprietary

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>>61102381
Paying money to make a propioratry service FOSS

>>61102381
>4chan became a harmful service years ago when Google's captcha was introduced, things have only worsened with more tracking shit like analytics and the weird recent news
>he doesn't remember 4chan.js and spambots

>>61102267

is this bait ?

Dude unless you're fucking retard and you don't even know how to set up your browser there is no reason to be afraid of that.

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>>61101684
This. I can't believe how many idiots misinterpret the first freedom.

I remember watching an interview of Stallman recently, and the interviewer compared the four freedoms to the right for open-sourced recipes, and Stallman explicitly shut him down, saying that recipes to any meal a chef makes is fundamentally free, because the chef needs to know the recipe in order to make the meal.

People think that free software entirely encompasses open-source, but that simply isn't true, although free software overlaps open-source in many ways.

>>61101632
If there is something that is opensorce free anonymous without karmawhoring system, I would left this place but yeah

>>61101632
4chan is foss.

>>61101684
False, everyone who has the binary also has the source. It's foss.

>>61102267
Still not software.

>>61102458
There are still spambots.

>>61104828
NNTPchan, it's distributed, somewhat popular, foss and has onion/i2p nodes without being cp infested.

4chan (website) is a botnet.

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>>61101632

Freetards are the most incoherent beings in the world of technology.

So did /g/ finally wake up regarding the Linux meme?

>muh freedom
>20 years and still only a barely functional OS

>>61101688
I'll have you know I have free range software, it's not as obedient as the alternative and it takes longer to load but I feel better knowing that my software is happy

>>61104943
But it's a kernel, ofc it would not be a functional os.

I'm actually just horribly addicted to this website

>>61102458
It's amazing how all of the site's money problems disappeared after the introduction of the captcha. Almost like moot wanted to introduce it all along but needed an excuse...

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>>61105181
Shit you're right.